By Our Reporter
The ‘March for Justice’ protest which was supposed to be staged by the Youth Wing of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) had been hijacked by big wigs and leadership of the party with the sole aim of hoodwinking the people of Ghana in order to gain their trust.
The likes of Johnson AsieduNketia, AtoForson, FiifiKwetey, OfosuAmpofo, Peter Otukonor, George OpareAddo,and SamuelNartey Georgeamong others have tried to use their faceas a saving mechanism for them to be able to see if they could win back the trust and confidence of the people and their supporters.
Interestingly, most of these personalities who have failed the party are trying to make their way back into the rank and file of the party hence, played pivotal roles in the protest in order to get there.
Meanwhile, during the protest, Johnson Asiedu Nketia accused the President of filling vacancies in the security agencies with members of various vigilante groups and damaging the reputation of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) and Ghana Armed Forces (GAF).
He said“ The protectors of the country are getting a bad name because of the actions of President Akufo-Addo’s vigilantes. It has brought division between citizens and security personnel because those killing us now, are clad in police and military uniforms. They have been given guns and when they kill civilians it further deepens the division. This has not been the relationship between civilians and security personnel since independence. So what happened that now our protectors are shooting us like we are grass cutters?”
According to him, the current tension between the civilians and security agencies could be detrimental to the nation’s security system since the institutions rely on the citizenry for intel.
Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo Prampram MP, Samuel Nartey George, questioned the rationale behind having the military at the demonstration and indicated that the military has “never been a tool for crowd control” as such the party expected to see the police and not the military.
